Selden Spencer Peebles (1832 - 1918)

Born 18 Feb 1832 in Martinsburg, Lewis, New York, USA

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Died 9 Sep 1918 at age 86 in Martinton, Iroquois, Illinois, USA

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Biography

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Burial

Burial: FAG 37866708

Place: Tegge Cemetery, Martinton, Iroquois, Illinois, USA

Note

Note: #N600

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Notes

Note N600In 1850 Selden Peebles returned to NY state and worked for a time on some railroad construction. The next year he returned to his father's farm in IL and worked there until the spring of 1852 when he

started overland for CA with other men and 3 yoke of oxen. They arrived at Hangtown, CA September 17, 1852. Selden cut lumber for awhile and then he started panning for gold on the South Fork of th

e American River. He bought a 1/3 interest in a gold claim for .00. his first pan of gold washed out at 2.00. He worked for about 4 years on this claim and sent enough money home to buy a far

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He left CA on a steamer from San Francisco to Panama. he crossed the isthmus to Colon and then came by water to NY, and then by rail to Chebanse, IL. On April 19, 1856 he arrived at his mo

ther's home to find that his father had died in July of 1855.